{"id":12097,"date":"2019-04-15T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=12097"},"modified":"2019-04-15T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:52:45","slug":"autoflightx-returns-tian-yu-to-forefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/autoflightx-returns-tian-yu-to-forefront\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoflightX Returns Tian Yu to Forefront"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Long Developmental Background<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Tian Yu headed Yuneec, a pioneering firm in electric flight.\u00a0 In 2009 his company had several motors and one- and two-seat aircraft flying.\u00a0 They even received certification from the FAA for the two-seat E430 and shipped it to Oshkosh, where it made its public flying debut at that year\u2019s AirVenture. \u00a0\u00a0At the 2013 AirVenture, Greenwing, an affiliate of Yuneec, fielded two e-Spyders, which pulled a first with several two-electric-airplane formation flights.\u00a0 Despite being a major supplier of hobby drones and an early developer of powered parachutes, Yuneec seems to have gone into a dormant state, with a new company, AutoFlightX, coming to the forefront.<\/p>\n

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First shown as the BAT600 concept vehicle in \u00a02017<\/a> (There seems to be an interim organization shift at the time), the craft was intended to be either hybrid or pure electric, and would have two forward and two rear coaxial positions for eight lifting propellers, one pusher propeller for flight , and a fixed wing.<\/p>\n